Archive - Software Design: Tidy First?

Leaving the Nest

A newsletter business update

Aug 22 •

Pitting genies against each other can result in better outcomes

Aug 18 •

New Is The New Black

Productive Ignorance--Better & worse ways to not understand

Aug 15 •

Cloud Development Environments Tame Complexity By Reducing State

This article was first published in 2022.

Aug 14 •

Match The Pipes

An executive skill

Aug 13 •

Kent's Going Home

So I’m going to have a place.

Aug 12 •

July 2025

Conclusion: Final section intro from Tidy Together

From Tidying Alone to Tidying Together: Where Software Design Takes Us Next

Jul 22 •

Introduction to part 3 of Tidy Together

Jul 21 •

Management Section Intro: Tidy Together Chapter

Jul 18 •

Tokens: The New Oil

What happens when demand exceeds supply? A 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract Perspective

Jul 18 •

Preface to Tidy Together

How do teams grow software together, despite differing goals, differing perspectives, and different incentives?

Jul 17 •

The First Feedback Filter

First published 2017.

Jul 15 •

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